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Track List
01) I Gotta Praise
02) He Wants To
03) If I May
04) She Got the Garden
05) People Like Us
06) Blackwater Banks
07) The Lord Is a White Con
08) Silence Is
09) Love Makes You Happy
10) The Fat Man
11) Your Bit of Stuff
12) He Can't Marry Her
13) Market Street
14) Since My Dearest Husband
15) The Future Mrs Heaton
16) The Dice
01) I Gotta Praise
02) He Wants To
03) If I May
04) She Got the Garden
05) People Like Us
06) Blackwater Banks
07) The Lord Is a White Con
08) Silence Is
09) Love Makes You Happy
10) The Fat Man
11) Your Bit of Stuff
12) He Can't Marry Her
13) Market Street
14) Since My Dearest Husband
15) The Future Mrs Heaton
16) The Dice
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First Released
2017
Alternative Rock
Bittersweet
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Crooked Calypso is the third studio album by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, both formerly members of The Beautiful South. The album was released in the UK on 21 July 2017 by Virgin EMI.
When writing the lyrics for the album, Heaton again retreated to the Netherlands writing the lyrics in Zusters Bar in Bergen (North Holland), 't Bevertje in Dordrecht (South Holland) and 't Markerveerhuis Restaurant in Monnickendam (North Holland). . The music was written in Gran Canaria together with guitarist Jonny Lexus. The photography for the album was by Sean Welch, the bassist for The Beautiful South.
A deluxe edition was also available upon the album's release, which included a DVD of a live performance recorded at Scarborough Open Air Theatre on 5 August 2016.
Crooked Calypso attracted mainly positive reviews upon release. Writing for The Guardian, Rachel Aroesti comments how Heaton delivers "observations about British society's ironies and inequalities" with "gusto, his droll lyricism drilling into subject matter from obesity... and the cavernous divide between rich and poor... over a backing of the kind of jaunty pop that can take in folk, disco and blues without ever breaking its buoyant stride."
In a review for AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, "There's something refreshingly organic about their big productions, which layer strings and horns over a whip-tight rock combo that sways nimbly between Motown, R&B, and old-fashioned rock & roll within the breadth of just a few notes."
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Returning for a third dip into the well of smart pop, former Beautiful South members Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott offer Crooked Calypso, a robust marriage of plucky wit, confidence, and heart. Since rekindling their musical partnership in 2014, the two singers have turned out a distinctive brand of musical merrymaking that has resonated with U.K. audiences. There's something refreshingly organic about their big productions, which layer strings and horns over a whip-tight rock combo that sways nimbly between Motown, R&B, and old-fashioned rock & roll within the breadth of just a few notes. As ringleaders, Heaton and Abbott make a winning and surprisingly egoless duo swapping lyrics, harmonizing, and keeping their party buoyant with the effortless grace of lifelong entertainers. Approached with any less skill, the effect of songs like "I Gotta Praise" and "The Fat Man" would come off as uncouth or corny, but the two manage to walk a perfect line of tone that successfully delivers their often barbed witticisms while conveying an underlying sense that they're not only in on the joke, but are also at the butt of it. It's this crafty togetherness that has made their first two records chart successes and helps Crooked Calypso succeed on the same level. From the heartfelt Irish folk tribute "Blackwater Banks" to the unstoppably hooky "People Like Us," this is an engaging and fun listen that is easy to repeat again and again.
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Crooked Calypso is the third studio album by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott, both formerly members of The Beautiful South. The album was released in the UK on 21 July 2017 by Virgin EMI.
When writing the lyrics for the album, Heaton again retreated to the Netherlands writing the lyrics in Zusters Bar in Bergen (North Holland), 't Bevertje in Dordrecht (South Holland) and 't Markerveerhuis Restaurant in Monnickendam (North Holland). . The music was written in Gran Canaria together with guitarist Jonny Lexus. The photography for the album was by Sean Welch, the bassist for The Beautiful South.
A deluxe edition was also available upon the album's release, which included a DVD of a live performance recorded at Scarborough Open Air Theatre on 5 August 2016.
Crooked Calypso attracted mainly positive reviews upon release. Writing for The Guardian, Rachel Aroesti comments how Heaton delivers "observations about British society's ironies and inequalities" with "gusto, his droll lyricism drilling into subject matter from obesity... and the cavernous divide between rich and poor... over a backing of the kind of jaunty pop that can take in folk, disco and blues without ever breaking its buoyant stride."
In a review for AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, "There's something refreshingly organic about their big productions, which layer strings and horns over a whip-tight rock combo that sways nimbly between Motown, R&B, and old-fashioned rock & roll within the breadth of just a few notes."
User Album Review
Returning for a third dip into the well of smart pop, former Beautiful South members Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott offer Crooked Calypso, a robust marriage of plucky wit, confidence, and heart. Since rekindling their musical partnership in 2014, the two singers have turned out a distinctive brand of musical merrymaking that has resonated with U.K. audiences. There's something refreshingly organic about their big productions, which layer strings and horns over a whip-tight rock combo that sways nimbly between Motown, R&B, and old-fashioned rock & roll within the breadth of just a few notes. As ringleaders, Heaton and Abbott make a winning and surprisingly egoless duo swapping lyrics, harmonizing, and keeping their party buoyant with the effortless grace of lifelong entertainers. Approached with any less skill, the effect of songs like "I Gotta Praise" and "The Fat Man" would come off as uncouth or corny, but the two manage to walk a perfect line of tone that successfully delivers their often barbed witticisms while conveying an underlying sense that they're not only in on the joke, but are also at the butt of it. It's this crafty togetherness that has made their first two records chart successes and helps Crooked Calypso succeed on the same level. From the heartfelt Irish folk tribute "Blackwater Banks" to the unstoppably hooky "People Like Us," this is an engaging and fun listen that is easy to repeat again and again.
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